IT Enterprise Systems & Cloud Architect

Job Description:

The IT Enterprise System & Cloud Architect is accountable for defining, governing, and evolving the organization's enterprise infrastructure, hybrid cloud, and platform architecture in support of missioncritical, safetysensitive, and highly regulated operations. The role ensures that enterprise systems, technical infrastructure, and cloud platforms are designed and operated in a secure, resilient, scalable, and standardized manner aligned with business strategy, compliance obligations, and operational excellence.

Acting as a senior technical authority, the Architect translates business and operational requirements into pragmatic, supportable architectural designs and implementation plans across onpremises, hybrid, and cloud environments. The role places strong emphasis on availability, recoverability, cybersecurity, cost governance, and lifecycle management-balancing innovation with operational stability and regulatory compliance.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Enterprise & Cloud Architecture Leadership

• Define and maintain enterprise and cloud target architectures, reference designs, and multiyear roadmaps spanning data centers/bases, hybrid connectivity, public cloud (Azure/AWS), and SaaS platforms.
• Act as Design Authority for enterprise infrastructure and cloud solutions, ensuring alignment with architectural standards, security principles, operational models, and regulatory expectations.
• Lead architecture reviews for major initiatives, platform changes, mergers/integrations, and vendor solutions.

MissionCritical & Operational Resilience Design

• Architect highly available, faulttolerant platforms supporting 24x7 operational environments, including disaster recovery, business continuity, and failover strategies.
• Ensure designs meet stringent uptime, performance, and recoverability requirements common in aviation, industrial, and energy operations.
• Partner with Operations & Service Delivery teams to ensure architectures and infrastructure are supportable, monitorable, and productionready.

Cloud, Hybrid & FinOps Governance

• Architect and govern Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments including landing zones, networking, identity, compute, storage, and security baselines.
• Establish architectural patterns for scalability, cost transparency, and financial governance in line with FinOps best practices.
• Provide authoritative guidance on cloud adoption, migrations, workload placement, and decommissioning of legacy platforms.

Identity, Security & Compliance Architecture

• Define securebydesign architectures aligned to Zero Trust principles across identity, endpoint, network, and data layers.
• Ensure infrastructure and cloud designs meet internal security standards and external compliance obligations (e.g. ISO 27001, SOX, NIS, NIST CSF, aviation and industrial regulatory requirements and frameworks).
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity and Risk teams to embed controls, logging, monitoring, and auditability into platform designs.

Standards, Governance & Vendor Engagement

• Define, maintain, and enforce enterprise infrastructure, collaboration systems, and cloud standards, guardrails, and lifecycle practices.
• Participate in architecture governance forums, technical design authorities, and change advisory processes.
• Evaluate vendors, manage service providers, and technology platforms, providing independent technical recommendations and risk assessments.

Delivery Enablement & Operational Transition

• Provide handson architectural leadership during project delivery-from concept and design through implementation and operational handover.
• Ensure designs are well documented, automated where appropriate, and transitioned cleanly into steadystate operations.
• Support root cause analysis and remediation of complex crossplatform technical issues.

Strategy, Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies relevant to regulated, missioncritical environments.
• Identify opportunities for modernization, automation, consolidation, and operational efficiency improvements.
• Contribute to technology strategy, investment planning, and decision support.

PERSON SPECIFICATION: (minimum education requirements, key skills and experience)

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Architecture, Cloud, Infrastructure, or Security certifications preferred (e.g. Azure Architect, TOGAF, ITIL, Microsoft, AWS, CISSP)

Experience:

• 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure, systems, and/or cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience designing and governing complex hybrid and cloud architectures.
• Strong background across compute, networking, identity, storage, endpoint management, collaboration systems, and systems integration.
• Experience working with geographically distributed operations, OTadjacent systems, or safetycritical environments is highly desirable

Skills:

• Strong enterprise and cloud architecture design capability with a systemsthinking approach.
• Deep technical knowledge of Microsoft enterprise platforms, collaboration systems, hybrid identity, and cloud services.
• Ability to translate complex business and operational requirements into practical, sustainable architecture and implementation plans.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to communicate effectively to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Excellent documentation, analytical, and problemsolving skills.
• Comfortable operating as a senior technical authority without direct line management.

Bristow Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.